My hours are peaceful centuries..

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power.

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; a….

Great men are sincere..

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical fo….

A nation never falls but by suicide..

The world we live in is but thickened light..

Nothing can be preserved that is not good..

Life is a festival only to the wise..

Make youself necessary to someone..

Some will always be above others..

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures perfo….

That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose..

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is l….

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a….

In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me..

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven..

The beautiful is never plentiful..

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none..

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried..

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother..